Mary Sanchez: Time to admit what we know about the death penalty and who receives it
by Mary Sanchez, Tribune Content Agency
Jul 09, 2021
3 minutes
His mother began drinking as a ten-year-old.
Her prepubescent cocktail of choice was half beer and half soda. As a young teen out partying with the man who’d father her children, she drank pints of gin and whiskey.
Jean Ann Patton was an addict who drank through her pregnancy with Ernest Lee Johnson and abused sedatives too, doctors testified in depositions.
Patton reached the fourth grade. Her IQ was noted by doctors as 61.
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